Education

Students of the Rehabilitation Center Umut-Nadejda, Kyrgyzstan during the event conducted by Save the Children International

BISHKEK, 15 May 2015 - 10-year-old Abdumajid did not go to school for a year. Living in Moskovskii District, a semi-urban area near capital city Bishkek of Kyrgyzstan, Abdumajid has motor impairments that kept him in the home for the 2013-2014 school year. Living with his father and grandmother, he received home education until being reached in May 2014 by the European Union funded project "Promoting, protecting and enforcing the rights of people with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan", implemented by Save the Children.

Following assessment, new standards and interactive techniques in place

April 2015—Although the Kyrgyz Republic has a very high elementary school attendance rate, the quality of education remains a challenging issue, particularly the quality of reading skills of elementary school students.

Only 26 percent of teachers in the Kyrgyz Republic use effective and innovative methods for teaching reading, and only 10 percent of students in grades 1 and 2, and 1 percent of students in grade 4 meet the country’s national basic reading requirements, according to a recent assessment.